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© Thomson Reuters 2020.Heavy snow and COVID-19 crimp New Year celebrations in Japan
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kurisupisu
I’m doing yakiniku just like the PM!
Luddite
My SIL and her husband stayed at home, we have be talking on Skype instead.
Derek Grebe
I just clicked on this live cam of the Shibuya scramble. It's horrifying. Thousands of people starting their night out, spreading the virus, out all night because the trains won't run all night.
https://www.youtube.com/user/sibchtv/live
1300+ cases in Tokyo today. This time next week, that will look like nothing. Great work, folks. A year of caution and you've ruined it. Kiss the Olympics goodbye.
zichi
Insane numbers on the Shibuya Crossing. Japanese don't always do what they are told to. Many not wearing masks. Feel sorry for all the cops.
We are now installed at home for the next four days except for exercise.
Dango bong
Horrifying might be a little overkill... maybe alarming
CaptDingleheimer
Looking like this might have been the winter to be stuck with the wife's family in Akita instead of New England.
It's shaping up to be an epic ski season in Tohoku.
Do the hustle
Crimp new year celebrations? Perhaps, if they had cancelled celebrations they would not have record numbers of new cases.
Japan has been too busy boasting and lathering themselves up about low numbers to control the spread when they had a chance to do so. Now, they have a runaway infection rate and no contingency plan to curb the spread. How wonderful, NOT!
starpunk
Most NYE celebrations in America have been nixed and there are curfews but that's all. And too many Americans are still partying like it's 1999.
Then they wail and moan when we get several thousand new cases daily.